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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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